Heavyweight hell-raiser Mike Tyson has again denied raping pageant contestant DESIREE WASHINGTON - but insists he'd do it now if he could, and add her mother to the list.

In an explosive interview with American cable channel FOX NEWS' GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, to be aired on US TV tonight (29MAY03), tattooed Tyson claims "slimy" Washington accused him of assaulting her in an Indiana hotel room in 1991 because she was "money hungry".

Tyson, 36, served three years in prison after he was convicted of raping the then 18-year-old MISS BLACK AMERICA contestant. He completed his parole in June 1999.

He rants on the show, "She's a lying, monstrous young lady - I just hate her guts. She puts me in that state where I don't know... but now I really do want to rape her and her f***ing mama.

"Anybody else having fun like that, it's young boys having fun. But it's me, I'm a big black rapist. That's the stigma I'm left with."

Claiming witnesses who would have proven that Washington is a "gold digger" were not allowed to testify, Tyson insists he would have been exonerated if he had had a fairer trial.

He swears, "Have another trial, and if I lose, I do my time again."

But MUHAMMAD SIDDEEQ, who was Tyson's spiritual adviser while the boxer was behind bars, claims Tyson was goaded by Van Susteren into making controversial statements.

Siddeeq says, "Her job is to get ratings on television."

29/05/2003 13:30